During the mid 1990s, while visiting the monastery at EWTN, Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN, asked Jim and Joanne Wright to return home to Buffalo, New York, and start a Catholic radio apostolate. Neither Jim nor Joanne had any radio or media experience but, after prayerful discernment, they started The Station of the Cross with the goal of bringing Catholic radio to Western New York.
After overcoming a number of challenges, The Station of the Cross was dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima and began broadcasting as WLOF 101.7 FM Buffalo on August 15, 1999. Soon, affiliate stations were founded. An AM station, WHIC, was dedicated to Our Lady’s Holy and Immaculate Conception and began broadcasting on July 1, 2003. A third station, WQOM 1060 AM Boston, was dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs and began broadcasting Nov. 1, 2010. The newest addition is WMTQ 88.1FM Elmira/Corning which began broadcasting February 7, 2011. Of course, The Station of the Cross can be heard all over the world as well via its iPhone and Android application, iCatholicradio!
The Station of the Cross is a nonprofit Catholic Radio Network that exists in order to effectively evangelize through radio programming and community action. Staff at the station strive to proclaim the truth revealed in the person of Jesus Christ, handed on by the power of the Holy Spirit through the Magisterium of the Catholic Church for the past 2,000 years, and now laid out for us in the Catechism.
In addition to their dedication to spreading the Gospel, staff at the station are also heartily committed to the pro-life cause. Every Saturday, employees and supporters of the station lead a prayerful protest outside 2500 Main Street—the site of the most active abortion clinic in Buffalo. Between 20-40 prayer warriors stand outside the clinic and recite the mysteries of the rosary as well as sing a Divine Mercy chaplet. Their large banner facing the passing traffic says it all: “Love will end abortion.”
